The 2021 Dallas Cowboys remain a difficult team to figure out. Just when it appears they’ve righted the ship and gotten back to their dominant ways from earlier in the season, the Cowboys turn around and give another uneven game.
In losing 25-22 to the Arizona Cardinals, the Cowboys played more uninspired football where they didn’t match the intensity of a winning team. The knock on the Cowboys these last few weeks was they were beating down on inferior opponents during their four-game winning streak and critics wanted to see how they fared against a good team.
Dallas fans couldn’t have liked the response from their team. In what several members of the team referred to as a measuring-stick game, the Cowboys fell short, at home, to an undermanned team that was reeling. The Cowboys, especially their offense, played an ugly game for most of the first three quarters before turning it on in the end to give themselves a chance.
Here’s the good, the bad, and the ugly from a disappointing loss in Week 17.